6/8/13 Homer Spit and Anchor Point
Anchor Point was named due to the fact Captain James Cook’s ship, the HMS Resolution, lost a large Kedge anchor while attempting to sail north against the hard flowing tidal waters in the area in May 1778.
As a sign along Sterling Highway proudly proclaims, Anchor Point is the most westerly point on the North American continent and is located just 14 miles north of Homer.
Anchor Point is known throughout the Kenai Peninsula for incredible scenery and around the world for exceptional sport fishing.
While in Anchor Point we visited the Normal Lowell Gallery. What an impressive gallery filled with his beautiful paintings.
Norman Lowell painted the scenery of Alaska from his arrival in 1958, until his advancing blindness compelled him to finish his work in 2017. He was legally declared blind in 2013 but by by building an array of lights around his easel, he was able to continue painting until 2017.
Both he, and his wife Libby, were at the gallery when we stopped in and it was a pleasure to meet them both and hear some of their history.
Norman and Libby, still reside on their homestead property, in the log home they built for their family in the 1980s.
Heading out onto the Homer Spit
View from Homer Spit
View from Homer Spit
Homer Spit
Homer Spit
Homer Spit
View from Homer Spit
View from Homer Spit
Camping at Homer Spit
Camping at Homer Spit
Camping on the Homer Spit
Crab traps at Homer Spit
On Homer Spit
On Homer Spit
On Homer Spit
At a Meadery on Homer Spit
Smiley face at Homer Spit
At the Norman Lowell gallery in Anchor Point - Kennicott Copper Mine
At the Norman Lowell gallery in Anchor Point - Glacier
At the Norman Lowell gallery in Anchor Point - Ninilchik
Artist, Norman Lowell and Mike
Norman Lowell gallery in Anchor Point
At the Norman Lowell gallery in Anchor Point - Mt Redoubt
At the Norman Lowell gallery in Anchor Point
Libby Lowell, Norman's wife, and Mike at the Norman Lowell gallery in Anchor Point
Mike at the Norman Lowell gallery in Anchor Point
David at the Norman Lowell gallery in Anchor Point
Susan at the Norman Lowell gallery in Anchor Point
Halibut Beach
Halibut Beach - a tractor takes the trailer into the water so the boat can drive up onto it
Halibut Beach - the tractor takes the trailer into the water so the boat can drive up onto it
Halibut Beach - the tractor takes the trailer into the water so the boat can drive up onto it
This is a video taken at Halibut Beach - the tractor takes the trailer into the water so the boat can drive up onto it
Eagle at Halibut Beach
Eagles Halibut Beach
Bridge over Anchor River
Mike with bridge over Anchor River behind